Mother Shipton, also known as Ursula Sonthiel Shipton, was born in 1488 in Yorkshire, England, and lived until 1561. According to legend, her birth was the result of a union between her mother and the devil. When she was born, she was hideously ugly, and as she grew older she began to tell fortunes and predict the future. It is said that she predicted the invention of trains and the telegraph.
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I have been to Mother Shipton's Cave in Knaresborough Yorkshire, There is The Petrifying Well and the things you see will amaze you. My family enjoyed it and the people that worked there were very nice. It is sceptics like you that will suffer for not taking notice of the warnings when the time comes for us all to decide. It does not matter who the prophercies were written by. What matters are that the events that are happening in the world today but were written about years ago are a warning to us all but no one takes any notice.You cannot deny this. The tsunami, New Orleans water covering the earth. Child abusers etc. I myself fear for my 3 young children growing up in this society of war, evilness and perverts these are the things that should be sorted out before it is too late and there is complete anarchy!
Posted by Vickie in Blackpool, England on Fri Jan 27, 2006 at 08:47 AM
Vickie, I would think that seeing what you consider to be amazing things, enjoying it, and seeing nice people at the Shipley shrine would not be a reason to blindly accept what you see as true. We should learn to weigh things carefully and then decide. Have you shot from the hip on this, or have you taken the time, like many others, to actually visit the sites mentioned that blow this hoax? Isn't it even worth looking into? The time is already here to "decide," as you say. I am a Christian, and I have decided already. I'm not waiting for some vague "time to come" in the future to decide. I assume that you are not a Christian. If you were, you should be well aware of the scriptures that tell us to test the spirits, that not all are of God. You would know about avoiding false prophets, so you would never boldly declare, as you did, that it doesn't matter who we accept as a true prophet. Why don't you teach your children the way of eternal life so you don't have to fear for them as you do, no matter what happens around you in this world. I am not fearful, because I know my future. It doesn't depend one bit on what's happening around us in the world. He says, "I will never leave you nor forsake you, that we may say 'The Lord is my helper, and I will not fear what man shall do to me.'" You aren't going to find your peace, or peace for your children, by being blown away by every well-packaged occult miracle, magicians trick, and false prophecy that comes along, accepting it without question. Am I a skeptic, as you say? Well, yes. As a Christian, I must be. To paraphrase some scriptures: "Don't be blown around by every wind of doctrine," "believe not every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are of God because many false prophets are gone out into the world," "I send you out as sheep in the midst of wolves, so be wise as serpents but harmless as doves," "false Christ's and false prophets shall arise and shall show great signs and wonders." A Christian knows that there are spirits a'plenty, and the deceptive spirit who is a liar can even appear to be an angel of light. I hate to break the bad news, but there is some deception going on out there, but there is a light to lead us out of it if we will follow it. Yes, Vickie, I am a skeptic, but don't worry. I have already decided whose side I am on, and I reject the other side hands down. They lose. http://www.christianreunion.org
Posted by John Davis in Oregon on Fri Jan 27, 2006 at 02:39 PM
You are misrepresenting Mother Shipton with that "Most Famous" prediction - that she never wrote!! It was written by some 19th century crankster, who admitted after 1881, that he had in fact altered the writings of Mother Shipton as a joke. Mother Shipton's scroll was copied approximately 80 years after her death. It does talk about the thoughts flying round the world, horseless carriages, iron ships, etc. This document is owned by the New South Wales library, in Australia.
Posted by KJordan in California on Fri Feb 17, 2006 at 03:17 PM
It all makes for interesting reading, but in the grand scheme of things, who really cares?
Posted by Matt on Wed Feb 22, 2006 at 12:28 AM
I, for one, can put all this hoakes nonsence to rest. My Mother's Maiden name was McCormack, her Mother's, Horsefield, and her mother's, Shipton. The Shiptons came to Australia from Yorkshire in about 1880 and established a tin mine near Cooktown, named Shipton's Flat. I am a direct decendant of "Old Mother Shipton", Ursula, and we have a gold ring shaped like a belt, with pearls where the holes would be, and the hair of her daughters braided around it in a groove. This ring has an dated inscription. Unfortunately, I cannot give the date because my brother has the ring in his possession. I can however proove she DID exist and all you have to do is check her family tree for proof. By the way, the person who described her in the "autobiography" was not a fan, and she bore no resemblance to the hag described. She was an attractive woman, but an outcast because of her ability to see the future. She had the same ability as Nostradamus, but was born in the wrong place and wrong time, when anyone showing any signs of unnatural mental ability was considered a witch. I, also, have this ability, albight slight. I dream future events, and have also seen spirits. It is a hereditery trait that seems to have followed through generation after generation.
Posted by Peta Ennis in Brisbane, Australia on Mon Jun 19, 2006 at 04:37 PM
Why pick on her? Was he rmother the Devil Himself in the guise of a pregnat 15 year old girl? Much like the XMen story of the Phoenix borroring Jean gray's body because she died in the aircraft while saving others?
Posted by Julia Marie on Mon Mar 05, 2007 at 12:00 AM
wow, you guys care too much. random facts on a random web site. i dont think they are making any pretentions as to the educational merit of this site so why dont we chillax?
Posted by charity in Provence on Mon Apr 02, 2007 at 04:20 AM
It is indeed a great shame that those who have nothing more creative to offer the world, seek the attention they crave the easy way, by debunking and ridiculing everyone and everything else. The world is full of "authors" debunking others for various, and often specious, reasons. According to such people, Churchill was an impotent cuckold, Pricess Di was killed by anti-islamic secret service agents incensed by her relationship with a Muslim, the Germans are still Nazi's and some idiots even claim that Christ was married with kids and lived in France! It seems that the lives of anyone who is dead, and therefore can't defend themselves, is used as fodder by those unable to do anything more creative than rewrite history to suit their own warped agenda. I wonder if it's some form of cultural inadequacy that prompts some of the comments made here! Who cares if King Arthur didn't really have a round table, or Robin Hood was actually a bloodthirsty highwayman and hardly the altruistic bandit of legend, or Mother Shipton was more a lonely old woman with a reputation for spinning a good yarn than an accurate soothsayer? The fact they existed is enough. And there's as much proof they did exist (more, if you take into account Samuel Pepy's own reference to the fact in his accredited diary) than there is to say otherwise.
Posted by Nock in London on Mon Aug 13, 2007 at 03:28 PM
Agreed. As Shakespeare said "The evil that men do lives after them; The good that men do is oft interréd with their bones". Folk heroes seem to attract far too much crticism from those incapable of contributing anything to our society, and a little embellishment along the way seems highly probable. As a PS: For the person who said 2/3 orf the bible was written whilst Christ was alive and the rest 100 years later, check your facts. The earliest surviving complete manuscript of the entire Bible is the Codex Amiatinus, a Latin Vulgate edition produced in eighth century England at the double monastery of Wearmouth-Jarrow. Note: 800 years after the event.
Posted by Jacqui in Planet Earth on Mon Aug 13, 2007 at 03:41 PM
I love Mother Shipton, and am very grateful for the response put up by her descendant. I do believe she had this gift, at had it so keenly and accurately, I think we must respect her foresight. For those who don't, fine. I am a skeptic, too, but she has passed my test. I don't know if you'll ever read this, but thank you, Peta Ennis. It is good to know the common information about her is not true. The legend of her as a devilish hag struck me as the trumped up fiction of someone who resented her Divine gift. Thank You!
Posted by Michael Johnson in Murrieta, California on Thu Sep 13, 2007 at 05:00 PM
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